Chapter 30

It didn’t, as far as any porn videos were concerned. What it did find were news stories from his hometown. Most of them were about shows he’d been in while in high school. He smiled as he read them, recalling how proud his family had been.

“Then they got the videos those bastards sent them to punish me,” Joe said angrily. He remembered his father’s words when his captors forced him to call and felt tears well up. He willed them not to fall as he read two more stories in the paper. They had to do with him going missing. His parents had told the police that they believed he’d been seduced, to use his mother’s word, into leaving with a man who had promised him a career in the movies.

Oh, I got that, in spades, just not the way she imagined.

He closed out of his search with one thought. The bastards are in prison. I hope to hell the inmates are treating them the way they treated me.

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